Gospel-aligned Biblical mysticism.
Theurgia is an interactive book outline for an honest, Christ-centered assessment, via systematic Biblical theology, of musical topics and adjacent spiritual practices:
- music and formation
- the Christian mystical tradition
- relics, images, and memory
- the sacraments and the means of grace
- prophecy, speech, and the spiritual gifts
- prayer and fasting
- meditation and contemplative silence
- divine hiddenness and the dark night
- practices drawn from other faiths
- incantations, spiritual warfare, and deliverance
The title is deliberate and ironic: theurgy once named ritual that tried to compel the divine, and the book turns the word inside out to confess that the only true god-working is God's own work for us in Christ.
It writes from a Protestant, creedal standpoint, reading Scripture as its own best interpreter while engaging the Catholic and Orthodox traditions charitably on contested practices such as relics, the sacraments, and the mystical tradition.
The current prototype is a static GitHub Pages-ready site with:
- a chapter-by-chapter outline for the book;
- interactive navigation between chapters;
- key Scripture passages, core questions, and proposed interactive elements per chapter;
- a working discernment rubric on the closing chapter that scores a practice against the rule and exports the result;
- private browser-local reflection notes for each chapter.
Open index.html locally, or serve the repository root with any static web
server.
The repository includes a GitHub Actions workflow that deploys the static site
to GitHub Pages whenever changes are pushed to main. The workflow can also be
run manually from the Actions tab.